Medicaid insurance in old age

Eric French

Medicaid insurance in old age

Eric French

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08 Jul 2016

This presentation was given at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics.

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Institute for Fiscal Studies

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01 Nov 2016

Journal article | American Economic Review

Medicaid insurance in old age

The old age provisions of the Medicaid program were designed to insure retirees against medical expenses. We estimate a structural model of savings and medical spending and use it to compute the distribution of lifetime Medicaid transfers and Medicaid valuations across currently single retirees.